Sorry to the OP for the experience and lack of response. If nothing else I feel that in bad situations UA OTH has been more then fair. Granted they have nothing on most Asian carriers, but I've seen an uptick in compensation for minor issues. In the past 2 months I've had 2 delays of less then 1 hour (something I would never complain about) and by the time I got home had 8k in mileage redemption per trip. Wow.


Anyhow, i was thinking while reading your story that they must be oversold and were using any trick in the book to deny boarding to you. But when you mentioned that the seats next to your wife were empty that shot my theory. But I would not be surprised to see a carrier who has one flight a day do such a thing because they needed to lighten the passanger load.